Word: seemly
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...first thing to say about Proof of Life is that it makes the problems of three show people seem less important than the drama of three compelling characters on a big movie screen. Inspired by a Vanity Fair article about a U.S. businessman kidnapped in Colombia, Tony Gilroy's script imagines that engineer Peter Bowman (the excellent David Morse) is seized by terrorist rebels, taken to an Andean prison aerie and held for a $3 million ransom. His wife Alice (Ryan) finds that Peter's company will not pay for the services of Terry Thorne (Crowe), an expert negotiator...
...Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions," wrote the prophet Joel. That may seem the definition of the spiritual enterprise, but in the past few years it has not described mainstream religion in America or the rest of the West. Catholicism and the Protestant mainline have occupied themselves with the less glamorous task of figuring out how changing social norms on issues like homosexuality fit into visions seemingly codified long...
...school on sprawling suburban acreage that's wired for online learning might seem more conducive to education than a century-old institution. But in a new report, the National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that older schools, if renovated and upgraded, can be just as vital. The trust is interested in the preservation of the buildings as historic landmarks, but its report also argues that the decline of small, neighborhood schools has impaired our sense of community and led to large, impersonal campuses far from home. That's why most kids today can't walk or bike to school...
Parents who send their "late-five" children to kindergarten with classmates who have already turned six years old often think they're giving them a jump start on learning. But a new analysis from the renowned Fullerton study says although late fives at first seem more advanced than same-age peers who start school a year later, any advantage disappears by fifth grade. The Fullerton study is a longitudinal analysis of 130 kids (now adults), all of whom could have started kindergarten as late fives but half of whom were not enrolled until they turned...
When it announced in October that Gao Xingjian had become the first Chinese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy singled out for particular praise his "great novel" Soul Mountain, calling it "one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves." Proving that fate sometimes smiles on publishers, an English rendition of Soul Mountain (HarperCollins; 510 pages; $27) was in the works well before the Nobel hullabaloo made its author an international celebrity, and has now arrived with the unexpected imprimatur of the Swedish Academy...